Career

Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s she covered public broadcasting for the industry newspaper Current and reported for Cablevision and The Washington Weekly.

In 1987, she joined National Public Radio, first as editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, and then as senior editor of All Things Considered. In 1991, she received a Knight Fellowship to study Russian language and history. A year later, she was reporting from Moscow for NPR, covering such stories as the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament. In 1995, Gladstone returned to the United States and was hired as NPR's first "media reporter," based in New York City.

In October 2000, WNYC — New York Public Radio — hired Gladstone to help relaunch On the Media, locally produced but nationally distributed by NPR. By 2010, it had quadrupled its audience and earned several major journalism awards.